A reader’s take on climate change

WE ASKED READERS about the many ways they are dealing with the effects of climate change in their daily lives.

Chartered Forester, Andrew Heald, told The Edinburgh Reporter: “We try to take all the personal steps that we can in terms of shopping, diet, travel etc, but we are aware that we need systemic change at a national and city level.

“So we try to support politicians that are committed to long term real change.

“Professionally I work to develop and finance large scale forest landscape restoration projects that work with local communities, restore biodiversity and grow the timber fibre that we all use every day.”